The following excerpt was taken from: "The New Bethel Sesquicentennial, 1782-1932":
p. 98 - Jacob Gross I, died about 1790. May be buried in New Bethel. Of German descent - all of family Lutheran, except himself - and supposed to have been one of first members of New Bethel [Presbyterian Church, Sullivan Co. TN]. Jacob Gross II, d. May 21st, 1872, Son of Jacob I, Wife was Sarah Farington. May be buried on Jacob Gross farm [Sullivan Co. TN]. Alfred F. Gross, 1822-1902. Ordained as Deacon in 1882 by Rev. James B. Converse. Son of Jacob Gross II. Julian A. Gross, 1830-1904. Wife of Alfred F. Gross.
p. 70 - The Gross family, of German descent, were all Lutherans except Jacob Gross, Sr., himself who died about 1790, and is believed to have been one of the original members of New Bethel [organized in 1782]. He was the father of a large family of sons and daughters, who emigrated westward and dispersed in various directions. His son, Jacob Gross, 2d, occupied the old homestead, and after a very irregular life of more than three-score and ten years came to a dying bed. On that sick bed he professed penitence, asked to be received into the Presbyterian Church, saying that he had been baptized in his infancy by a Presbyterian minister and desiring that the Lord's Supper might be administered to him. His request was granted and he died May 21st, 1872.
